The Standard Organisation of Nigeria has asked electrical dealers to uphold the quality standards for them to benefit from the African Continental Free Trade Agreement.
The Director-General, Farouk Salim, gave the advice at a sensitisation workshop for Electrical Dealers Association of Nigeria at the Alaba International Market, Lagos, according to a statement issued by the organisation on Sunday.
Salim said the advice was to ensure the Nigerian market took its rightful place as the largest market in West Africa, in the AfCFTA, adding that the agency was willing to work with the association in ensuring that the market was free from substandard goods.
He said, “For the market to have a good reputation and to have more customers across the world especially with this open border policy in the AfCFTA, it is very important for them to police themselves, find out those people with bad products and report them to us so that we can take them out of the market.
“So far, they have not given us a reason to doubt their commitment towards eradicating substandard goods. Anybody here with certification or who has genuine products does not have a problem with SON.”
Executive Chairman, EDAN, Mr Fabian Ezeorjika, said the market authority in complementing the efforts of SON had constituted internal mechanism to checkmate the efforts of those indulging in manufacturing, importation or exportation of sub-standard products.
He added that the association had also constituted an ad-hoc committee called standard and anti-adulteration committees, vested with the responsibilities of standardising and regulating the quality of products in the electrical section.
– Punch